David Fairbairn (born 1949), is an Australian painter and printmaker who was the winner of the
Dobell Prize for Drawing in 1999. He has been selected as a Dobell Prize Finalist fifteen times, won the
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2002 and has been exhibited in the
Archibald Prize eight times. Fairbairn teaches at the
National Art School, Sydney.
Personal life
David Fairbairn was born in
Zambia, Africa in 1949. Following his schooling he did an honours degree in Fine Art then earned a postgraduate scholarship to
Royal Academy School of Art, London, attending from 1974-1977. He moved to Australia in 1979. He lives in
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, a small town on the
Georges River
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south of Sydney, with his wife, the artist and Dobell Prize winner,
Suzanne Archer
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, who is featured in much of his work.
Career
After a legal dispute between the Tweed Shire Council and the administrators of the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize resulted in the earliest winning artworks being separated from others,
Fairbairn's 2002 winning portrait of his wife is the earliest displayed in the current Moran prize collection.
Fairbairn's most recent Art work was the one that he called Large head JB no 1
References
External links
National Art School, SydneyStella Downer Art DealerABC News - Archibald finalists 2012Campbelltown Gallery - David FairbairnDesign and Art Australia online
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1949 births
Living people
Australian painters
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize winners
Archibald Prize finalists
20th-century Australian artists
Zambian emigrants to Australia
Zambian painters
Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools